Since WE don't care what your Aunt says, and YOU'VE been told a resounding "no" by everyone in this thread, why are you still asking? Even if your family gives you good references, there are plenty of candidates with ZERO drug usage, college degrees and military veterans. Who do YOU think a department should choose?
Hell, you just turned 18. Unless your state is different, most places won't allow you to be a cop until you're 21. You've still got 3 years to keep your nose clean (no pun intended).
Of every one hundred men, ten should not even be here. Eighty are nothing but targets. Nine are real fighters, and we are lucky to have them, for they make the battle. Ah, but the One... One of them is a Warrior... He will bring the others back.
"Wrong door, buddy!"
Let no man's ghost say my training failed him.